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Job Fair Interview Follow-Up: Man the Phone

By John Hazard ⋅ August 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

If most attendees at job fair go primarily to research the market and find leads, their primary goal when they leave the job should be to follow up on those leads and market conditions, said Charles Kush III, an independent consultant who is looking for a position as a senior vice president of marketing.
I met [...]

Carpet Research is Step One for Marketing Execs at Career Event

By John Hazard ⋅ August 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

John began his job search in January when he decided to leave the consumer package-goods company at which he had worked for 35 years. He gave notice that August would be his last month as director of marketing and set about to find a job much the same way he had found consumers for many [...]

Executive Jobs at the Job Fair?

By John Hazard ⋅ May 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Job fairs are a favorite location for local television reporters to get in on the recession coverage.
The formula: Get up early; find a long line outside an airport hotel and talk to the poor saps in suits waiting in the rain to be the 200th person to speak to a very young recruiter about a [...]

Images From the 2009 Unemployment Olympics

By John Hazard ⋅ April 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

On Tuesday, March 31, about 40 jobless New Yorkers gathered on the ball field at Tompkins Square Park to compete in four scheduled events loosely inspired by the Olympics and a children’s birthday party and lampooning the state of the job market – “pin the tail on the economy”, “sprint to the unemployment office”, “hit [...]

Unemployment Olympics: Out of Work But in the Medals

By John Hazard ⋅ April 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Reporter Karl Rozemeyer filed this report from the Unemployment Olympics, March 31 in Tompkins Square park, New York:
New York – There was no torch to light, no medals to award and little in the way of ceremony, but what the contestants at the 2009 Unemployment Olympics held Tuesday in New York brought with them all [...]

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